This commit cleans up volatile qualifiers that fit the below
criteria:
* Accesses to shared memory protected by a spinlock or LWLock.
Before commit 0709b7ee72, callers had to use volatile when
accessing spinlock-protected shared memory. Since spinlock
acquire/release became compiler barriers, and because LWLocks
provide the same guarantee, that is no longer necessary. These
either predate that change or were cargo-culted from code that did.
* Pointers used only to find the address of a member. The volatile
qualifier only affects accesses made by dereferencing the pointer,
so it is unnecessary there.
* Accesses to struct members that are marked volatile in the struct
definition. There's no need to mark these pointers volatile,
either.
* Leftovers from removed PG_TRY blocks. These were marked volatile
to protect a value that is modified inside a PG_TRY block, but the
PG_TRY has since been removed.
Reviewed-by: Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnaka@iki.fi>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/akQ5eJR1tCCXme8e%40nathan
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